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" I don't feel so alive if I'm not being creative. "
Patrick Marber
Being
Alive
Feel
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" My life is in dialogue with the plays that I write. The relationship I have with my plays is very, very intimate, and I dot my life through them. "
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" When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice. "
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" I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous. "
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Good
" I come back to the theatre happily knowing that while it won't make me rich, it will provide me with fun. "
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" I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency. "
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Constantly
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" I did have a midlife crisis. "
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Did
" I think I write serious comedies. I would love to be able to write for pure pleasure, but the undertow is always loneliness. "
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" I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion. "
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" A part of me would like to see the money go to hospitals or housing, but I have benefited so greatly from funding for the National Theatre, which has been incredible. "
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Theatre
See
" When I couldn't write, I felt like a zombie. "
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Zombie
Felt
Write
" I'm a Jew. I think of myself as a Jew first and Englishman second. "
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First
Second
Think
" Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level. "
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First
Art
" When I'm on a train and see an empty pitch, it gives me a certain pleasure that I can't quite describe. It's to do with potential. "
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Train
Pleasure
" My whole life has a Jewish flavour. "
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Whole
Jewish
Life
" If I get anything out, producing anything, no matter whether it's good or not, I allow myself a little pat on the back. "
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Good
Matter
Myself
" I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that. "
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Know
You
Sometimes
" It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it. "
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Film
Mean
Me
" I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally. "
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New
New York
Film
" I dispute that 'Closer' is about betrayal. Betrayal is one of the elements. "
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About
Closer
Elements
" A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse. "
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Family
Collapse
Couple
" Oh, I would love to be in Don Juan's shoes for a weekend. Not that I was ever handsome enough to be a Don Juan. "
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Love
Shoes
Weekend
" Enough people like me. Enough to let me sleep at night. "
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Sleep
Me
Night
" I consider myself a Jewish writer, like all my heroes: Tom Stoppard, David Mamet, Philip Roth, Arthur Miller, Woody Allen. "
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Myself
" I don't try to be likeable. The worst thing people do is present versions of themselves to the world that aren't real. "
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World
Worst
Try
" But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make. "
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Proud
Think
Like
" I think writing is a glorious and noble thing. "
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Think
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I Think
" In 2012, I really thought, 'That's it. It's over. I've written what I can write.' "
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Really
Thought
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